Rogue Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (RVUUF) Ashland, OR

Fri, May 4, 6-9pm. Save the date. and start thinking about donations by you or your favorite businesses.

Details to follow (see last year's auction, for example)

Fri, May 20, 6-9pm. Our auction is the largest annual fundraiser for RVUUF, and it is so much fun. First, there will be a silent auction, where you walk around and enter bids on bid sheets for items that interest you. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served during the silent auction. Then there will be a live auction where an auctioneer facilitates the bidding. For a complete list of silent and live auction items, see our catalog. At the end of the auction, you pay for all items that you have won.

• Invite friends outside of RVUUF to join you for the event. Invite those you have not seen for awhile or make it a part of a family reunion. Invitation Flyer. How about a girl's night out? Ask new visitors to RVUUF who might enjoy getting to know us better.
• Childcare will be available so you may enjoy the evening knowing your young ones are nearby.
• Ask for, or be, a Bidding Buddy. If you know that you cannot attend but want to participate, request someone (a Bidding Buddy) to bid for you. Consider being a Bidding Buddy for someone who cannot attend…what fun to spend someone else’s money! Contact Maria Geigel if interested.
• The auction catalog is available online here; paper catalogs will be available at the RVUUF Office during normal hours. Tickets ($10) will be available in advance at the Office and at the door.

Event Schedule [Fri, May 20]

6:00-7:30   Silent auction, hors d'oeuvres & beverages
7:30-8:15   Live auction with professional auctioneer
8:15-9:00   Dessert, door prizes
9:00        Check out

Chair: Maria Geigel
Members of Appeal for Funds Review Team: Joan Dean, Maria Geigel, Ed Fremouw
Ministry: Administration

Purpose:

• Generate income for the RVUUF general fund
• Coordinate all Appeals for Funds, even those not intended as fundraisers

Procedure: Appeals for Funds, complete [.pdf] [10-Jun-2011], includes all forms; individual forms are available separately below: .pdf (includes instructions), .doc (provided for your convenience: download the file, complete the form, email it to Fundraising)

• I. Agreement with Fundraising Presenters Form [.pdf], [.doc] [10-Jun-2011]
• II. Appeal for Funds Proposal Form [.pdf], [.doc] [21-Apr-2011]
• III. Celebration-Memorial Gift Proposal Form [.pdf], [.doc] [21-Apr-2011]

Auction Donation Form: [.doc], [.pdf] [2-Mar-2011]

You can link your credit cards and grocery customer cards online on eScrip.com to donate a percentage of your purchases at no cost to you! -- click on image or link. (RVUUF's Group ID#: 6426462)

Albertson's shoppers: RVUUF’s general fund will benefit from all your purchases at all Albertson stores.

Fri, Aug 20- Sat, Aug 21. This is how it works:

1. The Great Hall is prepared with signs and assigned spaces for categories of items.
2. RVUUF members and Friends bring donated items (no clothes or shoes) Mon, Aug 16 through Thu, Aug 19. (Please don't bring items before Monday as we don't have a place to store them). Pricers and placers will be on hand to help you.
3. Volunteers will be needed throughout the week to place, price, assist, check out, and heft and lug. There is a sign up in the lobby.

Clean out your unused resellable stuff. Help out RVUUF! Help out your closets and storerooms! Box up the stuff and make the RVUUF sale a rousing success. Contact: Jan Waitt

Performances: July 2,3,10,11 from 4-7pm, Ashland Cemetery. Actors in period costumes will portray the people who settled Ashland in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This year’s event has all new stories and characters and is a fundraiser for RVUUF and the Ashland Historic Railroad Museum. Tours depart from the Cemetery entrance every fifteen minutes and the last tour departs at 6pm. Tickets are available at the Cemetery entrance, but we recommend you purchase them in advance at Paddington Station to assure the tour of your choice. Prices are $5 for children 12 and younger, $10 for adults, and $25 for families of up to 2 adults and three children. Come play with us. We need 40 volunteers as ticket takers and tour guides for the “Meet the Ashland Pioneers.” Please sign up for a shift at the table under the balcony. This is a fun event and you will enjoy participating. Contact Delores Nims.

2009: Description; Slideshow #1; Slideshow #2

Glen Paris, a producer for RVTV, has created a DVD of Meet The Ashland Pioneers which we will show at the Fellowship on Monday, August 3rd at 7pm. In addition to the actors, she has included music, and photos of the woolen mill, and some of the pioneers' gravestones and homes.

Delores Nims said, "I was blown away by the power of this video. For the first time I understood how we brought the pioneers to life."

Thank you to all the people who helped to make "Meet the Ashland Pioneers" a success. We had about 340 people take the tour and raised $3,430 dollars, $2400 of which is profit. Half of that goes to RVUUF and half to Art in the Valley Schools. I will keep you informed about the Art project as it unfolds. If you know of artists in Jacksonville, Medford, Central Point, Phoenix, and Talent, please e-mail Delores Nims with names and phone numbers.

We will repeat this event next year with different characters and stories, so if you have suggestions please e-mail Delores; also I am interested in people who would like to do the research which will begin in Sep or Oct.

If you want to be considered for an acting part please e-mail Delores. Jan Waitt who has a masters degree in theatrical directing will be our director and drama coach next year and assist with casting.

2009 Event Description; Pioneer Slideshows: old photos; our actors